The Apocalypse of Isaiah is not a story about coming disasters, but a vision of the triumph of God's Kingdom. Let us note for ourselves several details of which the prophet speaks: victory over the enemies of Israel, the gathering of Israel from dispersion, the Lord's feast for all nations on Mount Zion, the openness of the paths of personal righteousness, victory over death and the resurrection of the dead, the defeat of the serpent, and joy and gladness in God's salvation. Why was this written? We are called to take part in this victory - through our trust in the prophecy and our agreement with God's plan.

The Lord calls all those who are struggling and hurting to come to Him. These words are about all of us, as Alexander Blok would later write, "about all who are weary in a foreign land, about all the ships that have gone to sea, about all who have forgotten their joy." We are called to Himself by a caring God, the Father, in whose image and likeness we were created and who is hurt when we hurt. We are called to Himself by God, who knows what suffering and pain are, by Christ, who passed through more suffering than each of us and showed that even beyond death there is a breakthrough into Resurrection. The Holy Spirit awaits meeting us, God who gives rest and strength to hope and believe that the breakthrough will certainly come...

The Lord perhaps has no stronger desire than for His children to come to Him so that He can pour out all His love on them. He wants to remove our burdens from us, everything that prevents our gaze from being constantly turned toward Him, and in exchange to give us something far more precious. Something that has many names, but the main one, probably, is Love. This is the good yoke and the light burden of which He speaks. And at the same time, as Christ Himself showed us, His burden is the Cross... The Cross and the breakthrough into Resurrection: this is the real life that God offers us.

People who don’t read the Bible and don’t believe in God often say "it is God’s punishment", in relation to themselves or to other people, being in a difficult situation. But is it possible to lay a claim to God for having jumped from the ninth floor, you break to death? Scarcely can we find the inevitable action of the law of universal gravitation as a punishment. Unless we require from God explanations, on what account He established such laws. Even from a human point of view, such claims are ridiculous and absurd: the Creator has the right to decide Alone, without consultation with the creation, of which laws define the functioning of the world. And the disdain of the fundamental laws of the universe brings inevitably to terrible consequences. The ignorance of the law or the refusal to recognize that the law exists doesn’t mean that it stops acting, and stops to present to us each time its terrible account. And that is the demonstration of judgment. The ignorance of the law doesn’t free us from responsibility. Because the possibility of knowing it is given to us. They are all written in the Bible. But will that teach us something? Are the fruits of evil in the world little for me? Is work not enough for me here? We can close eyes on what does not concern us directly, but because of that His judgments will not in any case stop coming true in the earth and, if we don’t believe by words, then we shall learn the truth by terrible human methods.